brandon pierce key terms research

  • jim crow laws

    jim crow laws

    laws of racial segregation directed against colored people
  • 13th amendment

    13th amendment

    it got rid of slavery in the united states
  • black codes

    black codes

    forced black people to work for low wages
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    all people born in the united states are citzens
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied
  • lynching

    lynching

    Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group
  • plessy v ferguson

    plessy v ferguson

    it kept segergation in public places
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    allowed women to vote
  • 20th amendment

    20th amendment

    moving ending of terms in the goverment
  • orville faubus

    orville faubus

    he was a politian who stood for segergation in schools
  • rosa parks

    rosa parks

    refused to give up her seat on the bus and she was arrested for not giving up her seat
  • montgomery bus boycott

    montgomery bus boycott

    against racial segregation on the public buses
  • civil rights act of 1957

    civil rights act of 1957

    was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
  • civil rights act of 1957

    was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
  • sit ins

    sit ins

    sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro North Carolina
  • civil disobedience

    civil disobedience

    professed refusal to obey certain laws,
  • nonviolent protest

    nonviolent protest

    ractice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests,
  • cesar chavez

    cesar chavez

    was an American civil rights activist he later the United Farm Workers union
  • george wallace

    george wallace

    was an American politician and he was pro-segregation
  • 1964

    1964

    the rights of citenzens to vote for the president or vice presdient shall not be denied
  • civil right act of 1964

    civil right act of 1964

    is a landmark civil rights and US labor law
  • lester madox

    lester madox

    was an American politician he refuesed to serve blacks
  • Martin Luther King Jr

    Martin Luther King Jr

    he was one of the civil right movement leaders and he was Assassinated
  • 26th amendment

    26th amendment

    made the voting age 18 years old
  • desegregation

    the ending of racial segregation
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    he was a justice of the suprmeme court